As an Institutional Research Information System, IRIS digitally archives and disseminates in open access the scientific research output generated by male and female authors affiliated with UniTrento. Adopted back in 2015, this institutional archive, , includes multiple types of research products and interoperates with other national (LoginMIUR or CINECA Teacher Site) as well as international databases (ORCiD, mEDRA, OpenAIRE, SCOPUS, Web of Science, Sherpa Romeo, DOAJ, Unpaywall, arXiv, PubMed, CiNii). From the end of September 2019, IRIS also collects doctoral theses.
IRIS is the single point of entry for strategic information for internal and external processes that are evaluation and monitoring of the research.
Furthermore, IRIS also allows bibliographic data and full-text (testo pieno) dissemination of the publications, if legally deposited under open access by the author, in compliance with L. 112/2013 and further requirements regarding open access dissemination.
More in detail:
IRIS provides bibliographic data to the ministerial database LoginMIUR, allowing the evaluation processes carried on by the Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (ASN, VQR, SUA-RD, Initial Doctoral Accreditation, Periodic Doctoral Accreditation, PRIN, FFABR). For ASN, IRIS makes it possible to monitor the position of the candidate or potential commissioner through the appropriate reporting functionality. For VQR, IRIS complements the ‘Institutional Repository’ (IR) input module with the ‘Evaluation and Review’ (ER) module.
IRIS enables open access dissemination of University's scientific research output, including through OpenAIRE, as required by EU calls of proposal (FP7, H2020, Horizon Europe).
IRIS makes it possible to produce reports that are useful to the University bodies (Evaluation Board, Quality Committee, Departments and Centres, ...) for monitoring the productivity of the University's academic structures (Departments and Centres, Doctoral Schools, ...), also for evaluation purposes (salary increases, internal career progressions, distribution of departmental and ef excellence funds, ...).
IRIS promotes junior researchers' output dissemination archiving their doctoral theses, also allowing their automatic compulsory deposit at the National Central Libraries of Rome and Florence.
IRIS’s content in their final state are displayed on Trento Digital University portal. The metadata of publications in IRIS can be used to extract a bibliography from its own Digital University (DU) page, which draws data from IRIS, or directly from IRIS using bibliographic data management tools.
The University's Open Science Policy establishes that bibliographic data in IRIS should also be associated with the full text (downloadable .pdf files only if the publisher of the publication has a policy allowing open access) of the research work, thus making its presence on the web even more significant.
Affiliated with the University of Trento and in any capacity subjects contributing to the scientific output of the University's Departments and Research Structures are required to enter the publications of which they are authors in the IRIS UniTrento Research Register.
The following categories of authors may access IRIS by logging in: professors/staff, professors/staff with fixed-term contracts, researchers, researchers staff with fixed-term contracts, other academic teaching staff, assignees, PhD students, collaborators, scholarship holders, technical and administrative staff i.e. non-academic staff.
As a bibliographic research tool, IRIS can instead be used by all web users (including students/academics), without logging in, to identify publications written by teachers belonging to UniTrento and check their fields of interest. If the PDFs of such publications are not directly downloadable from IRIS (because they are not open access), they must be searched via the Trentino Bibliographic Catalogue (CBT) and requested for loan or interlibrary loan.
Doctoral Theses
Following CRUI Guidelines, since 2008 the production of junior researchers has been valorised through open access dissemination, also thanks to the deposit of PhD theses in IRIS.
The PhD theses discussed prior to 2008 were sent - initially in paper format and later in digital format - to the National Central Libraries of Florence and Rome where they are still preserved and available for consultation, in accordance with the law on legal deposit (Law 106/2004) and the specific internal regulations of the library.
Doctoral theses stored in the institutional archive is a prerequisite for admission to the final examination (all relevant information can be found on the University portal in the doctoral section) and allows automatic compulsory deposit in the National Central Libraries of Rome and Florence.
When depositing the thesis, it is possible to request an embargo for a maximum duration of 24 months if the thesis
● is being published by a publisher that does not allow open access prior to publication
● has been produced in the context of projects financed by public or private entities with restrictions on the disclosure of results
● is, or may be, the subject of a possible patent application and registration and/or subject to protection in accordance with industrial property law (for further information on this, please contact the
Directorate of Research Services and Valorisation).
More detailed information on how to access, implement and query, see the Service Desk pages.